| Alcantara
Pled to 70
Months for
Ghost Guns He
Got with a
License
Application US
Wants 120
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Nov 8 – Robert Alcantara was
arrested and detained on ghost
gun charges, with ghost guns
much in the news these day.
He was slated to
plead guilty on August 2 so
Inner City Press went, the
only media in the
courtroom.
U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Judge Vernon S. Broderick
asked Alcantara to stated what
he had done.
Alcantara
recounted that he had bought
gun parts - with a license -
in Pennsylvania and was
driving them back to his home
in Rhode Island when he was
stopped in New York.
He said he
was told is was a misdemeanor,
but then "the ATF got
involved." They seized his
phone.
Alcantara
said that he was mailing guns
to his native Dominican
Republic; he emphasized that
he had a handgun
license.
Judge
Broderick asked if he had
neglected to disclose on his
gun license application that
he is not a citizen.
Alcantar replied
that he is a legal permanent
resident. It was not clear if
that was on his application -
but the interchange echoed
with a (proposed) diversion
disposition in the District of
Delaware.
See, today
in United States v. Biden
(23-cr-61) "at the July 26,
2023 hearing, the parties
provided the Court with the
Memorandum of Plea Agreement,
but did not provide the Court
with the Pretrial Diversion
Agreement. The Court will
docket the signed Memorandum
of Plea Agreement and IT IS
HEREBY FURTHER ORDERED that
the parties shall docket the
Pretrial Diversion Agreement
discussed at the hearing by
NOON today. ORDERED by Judge
Maryellen Noreika on
8/2/2023."
Alcantara's
plead agreement is to a
guideline of 70 to 87 months.
He has been and will remain
detained. Sentencing is set
for November 15 at 2 pm.
On October 31,
Alcantara's lawyer wrote it
asking for below 70 months.
On November 8 the
US Attorney's Office wrote it
asking for "an
above-Guidelines sentence of
120 months."
The case is
US v. Alcantara, 22-cr-152
(Broderick)
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